Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
Grim and forbidding in appearance.
To propel or move backward or stern-first in the water.
A bird, the black tern.
The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
The hinder part of anything.
The post of management or direction.
The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.
Severe in discipline.
Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Irreflexive; if the described object is defined to be reflexive, that condition is overridden and replaced with irreflexive.
Tense; not relaxed.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously particular.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted.
Strained; drawn close; tight.